Top 25 Richest Asian Business Dynasties: 2015 list Of The Wealthiest Families In Asia

With a net worth of $26.6 billion, South Korea’s Lee family, which controls the formidable Samsung empire, topped the much-awaited inaugural list of Asia’s 50 richest business dynasties published by Forbes Asia magazine.

The Lees of Samsung Group, the biggest of the “chaebol” or a South Korean form of family-run business conglomerate, whose 2014 revenues were equivalent to 22% of South Korea’s total gross domestic product (GDP).

The second richest is the Hong Kong Chinese family, also surnamed Lee, which controls Henderson Development and boasts a fortune of $24.1 billion .

India’s Ambani family (brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani)is third on the list with a combined fortune of $21.5 billion, followed by Thailand’s Chearavanont family with $19.9 billion in 4th spot.

Rounding out the top five is the Kwok family, which controls Hong Kong’s Sun Hung Kai property empire, with a combined net wealth of $19.5 billion.

In fact, as many as 14 Indian families have made it to the inaugural list of Forbes Asia’s inaugural ranking of the top 50 Asian business dynasties features four Indians in the top 10.

Nearly half of the richest families in Asia are of Chinese descent, but none of them is based in mainland China. To qualify, a family’s wealth and participation in building that fortune has to extend at least three generations.

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Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is the CEO and editorial director at CEOWORLD magazine, the leading global business magazine written strictly for CEOs, CFOs, top managers, company directors, investors, senior executives, business leaders, and high net worth individuals.